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==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in [[Alexandria, Louisiana]] to a a black brick mason father and a European-Indian mother.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/arna-bontemps-39864</ref>  At age three, his family moved to [[Los Angeles]], where he refused to go into his father's trade, was sent to a white boarding school, and later graduated Pacific Union College with a BA in 1923.<ref>http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/arna_bontemps/biography</ref>  He moved to Harlem, New York, married, and accepted a teaching job during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], where he met [[W.E.B. DuBois]], [[Countee Cullen]], and his best friend, [[Langston Hughes]].<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/arna-bontemps</ref>  He won poetry prizes from ''The Crisis'' and ''Opportunity'' there, but moved to Huntsville, Alabama during the Depression, and later to Tennessee.<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/arna-bontemps</ref>

Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in [[Alexandria, Louisiana]] to a black brick mason father and a European-Indian mother.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/arna-bontemps-39864</ref>  At age three, his family moved to [[Los Angeles]], where he refused to go into his father's trade, was sent to a white boarding school, and later graduated Pacific Union College with a BA in 1923.<ref>http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/arna_bontemps/biography</ref>  He moved to Harlem, New York, married, and accepted a teaching job during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], where he met [[W.E.B. DuBois]], [[Countee Cullen]], and his best friend, [[Langston Hughes]].<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/arna-bontemps</ref>  He won poetry prizes from ''The Crisis'' and ''Opportunity'' there, but moved to Huntsville, Alabama during the Depression, and later to Tennessee.<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/arna-bontemps</ref>

He began to write novels with ''Chariot in the Cloud'' (1929), which was rejected, and became very famous for ''God Sends Sunday'' and ''Popo and Fifina:  Children of Haiti'' (1932), a children's book co-written by Langston Hughes.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His ''God Sends Sunday'' described a black jockey of the 1890s called Little Augie and his losing his luck in Mudtown, a fictitious suburb of Watts, California.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His next novels, ''Black Thunder'' (1936) and ''Drums at Dusk'', were about slave revolts in Virginia and Haiti, respectively.<ref>"Bontemps, Arna."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  One of his best known works his the children's history ''Story of the Negro'' (1949), a Newbery winner.<ref>http://www.librarypoint.org/author_arna_bontemps</ref>

He began to write novels with ''Chariot in the Cloud'' (1929), which was rejected, and became very famous for ''God Sends Sunday'' and ''Popo and Fifina:  Children of Haiti'' (1932), a children's book co-written by Langston Hughes.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His ''God Sends Sunday'' described a black jockey of the 1890s called Little Augie and his losing his luck in Mudtown, a fictitious suburb of Watts, California.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/arna-bontemps</ref>  His next novels, ''Black Thunder'' (1936) and ''Drums at Dusk'', were about slave revolts in Virginia and Haiti, respectively.<ref>"Bontemps, Arna."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  One of his best known works his the children's history ''Story of the Negro'' (1949), a Newbery winner.<ref>http://www.librarypoint.org/author_arna_bontemps</ref>

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==External Links==

==External links==

*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/arna-bontemps Extensive Biography] by the Poetry Foundation

*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/arna-bontemps Extensive Biography] by the Poetry Foundation